“How long can we continue to do this?” Mayor Brian Sager asked rhetorically during a budget workshop of the Woodstock City Council. He was talking about the council’s decade-long practice of holding the line on the city’s property tax levy, forgoing the state-allowed maximum levy since 2010. That “tax savings,” Sager said, totals $13.4 million […]
Recent proposals for solving the $160 million bond debt of Woodstock School District 200 avoid property tax increases, which was the wish of more than 79 percent of respondents to an online public survey last month. Ideas reviewed by the Board of Education last week look to refinance the debt in two phases over the […]
After paring six options down to three for a long-term plan to improve Woodstock’s streets, the City Council now has a tougher decision: How do we pay for it? How about an increase in property taxes? Maybe by raising the city’s 1-cent “home rule” sales tax, or the local fuel tax of 3 cents a […]
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